logrotate question

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Rudi Kramer - MWEB pisze:
>> Zbigniew Szalbot
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:14 PM
>> To: User Questions
>> Subject: logrotate question
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am trying to use logrotate from ports and I am getting the following
>> error. Can anyone offer any insight?
> 
> Hi Zbigniew,
> 
> I started investigating logrotate but someone put me on to newsyslog
> instead. 
> Newsyslog is part of the FreeBSD and amazing simple to setup:
> 
> 1) vi /etc/newsyslog.conf
> 
> 2) Add the following line:
> 
> /var/log/httpd/*.log www:www         644  60    *   @T00    BJG
> /var/run/httpd.pid
> 
> I would recommend reading man pages newsyslog newsyslog.conf for more
> info.
> 
> Rudi
Thanks for your post! Well, I really like newsyslog but I miss some 
features in it.

1/ rotating based on time and size
2/ saving files with timestapms in their names
3/ moving rotated messages to another folder

This is why I am trying logrotate.

Thanks!

Zbigniew Szalbot